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And Spotify may well be target of investigation one day. They are also in the monopolistic platform business model.

• Apocryphon 6y ago
  And like the Apple App Store, they also benefit from taking a substantial cut from their IP creators.
  • 627467 6y ago
    In my view, the percentages are not the biggest factors that lead to this situation (although it adds to the outrage when the monopolistic accusations are thrown around). The problem is: all of these big techs want to be a platform, and all of them sell (to their investors) the idea that their platform will be very profitable precisely because it will lock the participants inside a ecosystem hard to escape from. Apple wasn't always in this business.
    • scarface74 6y ago
      Apple has been a platform since iPod+iTunes? Spotify also wants to be a “platform”. The creators get a far smaller percentage and they are locking up “podcasts” behind their “walled garden”
      • Apocryphon 6y ago
        As discussed literally two comments above, > And Spotify may well be target of investigation one day. They are also in the monopolistic platform business model.